Senior Software Engineer

1 month ago


London, UK, United Kingdom Understanding Recruitment Full time

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer (Algorithmic Trading & Market Making)

Location: London - Hybrid

Type: Full-Time

Salary: Up to £150k + Big Bonus Potential


About the Company:

We are partnering with a leading financial services firm that specializes in algorithmic trading strategies and market-making systems. The company leverages cutting-edge technology and quantitative methods to deliver outstanding results in fast-paced financial markets. They are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to work on the continued development and optimization of their algorithmic trading platform and market-making systems.


Role Overview:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will focus on designing, implementing, and optimizing software solutions for the firm's trading and market-making systems. This is a hands-on, development-focused role where you’ll collaborate with engineers and quantitative analysts to build high-performance, scalable solutions that ensure the reliability and efficiency of the platform. Your contributions will directly impact trading strategies and operations in real-time market environments.


Key Responsibilities:

  • Algorithmic Trading Development: Design, develop, and optimize software for the algorithmic trading platform, ensuring high performance and low latency.
  • Market-Making Systems: Develop and improve the software architecture for market-making systems, focusing on reliability and speed.
  • Platform Optimization: Continuously enhance platform performance, scalability, and fault tolerance to meet evolving market conditions.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with quants, traders, and other engineers to gather requirements, develop solutions, and implement new trading strategies.
  • Data Processing: Build efficient systems for real-time data processing, ensuring rapid decision-making and response times in the trading platform.
  • Code Quality: Maintain high standards of code quality, implementing best practices in software development and testing.


Requirements:

  • Experience: 5+ years of experience in software development, with a focus on high-performance systems.
  • Technical Skills: Expertise in Python is essential. Experience with C++ or other low-latency languages is a plus. Strong experience in software architecture, system design, and development best practices.
  • Finance Background: Prior experience in financial markets, particularly algorithmic trading or market-making, is highly preferred.
  • Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, particularly in optimizing performance and latency.
  • Communication: Ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical teams, translating complex technical requirements into efficient solutions.


This role offers the chance to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, where you will directly contribute to the development of advanced trading and market-making systems. If you have a passion for finance and technology, we invite you to apply.



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